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We establish a general no--go theorem demonstrating that all traversable wormhole configurations in Unimodular Gravity necessarily require exotic matter. The proof relies solely on the geometric flaring-out condition, $b'(r_0) \leq 1$,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 Mauricio Cataldo , Norman Cruz , Patricio Salgado

A fundamental property in wormhole physics is the flaring-out condition of the throat, which through the Einstein field equation entails the violation of the null energy condition. In the context of modified theories of gravity, it has also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-07 Francisco S. N. Lobo

We present an analysis of the classic wormhole geometries based on conformal Weyl gravity, rather than standard general relativity. The main characteristics of the resulting traversable wormholes remain the same as in the seminal study by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-26 Gabriele U. Varieschi , Kellie L. Ault

The paper entitled Unimodular Gravity Traversable Wormholes by Agrawal et al. examined the properties of barotropic wormholes without tidal forces within the framework of Unimodular Gravity. Our analysis demonstrates that their conclusion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Mauricio Cataldo , Norman Cruz

We consider Non-local Gravity in view to obtain stable and traversable wormhole solutions. In particular, the class of Non-local Integral Kernel Theories of Gravity, with the inverse d'Alembert operator in the gravitational action, is taken…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-28 Salvatore Capozziello , Nisha Godani

While wormholes may be just as good a prediction of Einstein's theory as black holes, they are subject to severe restrictions from quantum field theory. In particular, a wormhole can only be held open by violating the null energy condition,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-31 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

Traversable wormholes have traditionally been viewed as intrinsically topological entities in some multiply connected spacetime. Here, we show that topology is too limited a tool to accurately characterize a generic traversable wormhole: in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-30 David Hochberg , Matt Visser

Following the recent theory of Lovelock-Brans-Dicke gravity, we continue to investigate the conditions to support traversable wormholes by the gravitational effects of spacetime parity and topology, which arise from the nonminimal couplings…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-08 David Wenjie Tian

Traversable wormhole solutions in General Relativity require exotic matter sources that violate the null energy condition (NEC), and such behavior maybe avoided in modified gravity. In this study, we analyze the energy conditions for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-25 Anshuman Baruah , Parangam Goswami , Atri Deshamukhya

Wormholes and black holes have traditionally been treated a quite separate objects with relatively little overlap. The possibility of a connection arises in that wormholes, if they exist, might have profound influence on black holes, their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-27 Matt Visser , David Hochberg

Although wormholes can be treated as topological objects in spacetime and from a global point-of-view, a precise definition of what a wormhole throat is and where it can be located can be developed and treated entirely in terms of local…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 David Hochberg , Matt Visser

A fundamental ingredient in wormhole physics is the flaring-out condition at the throat which, in classical general relativity, entails the violation of the null energy condition. In this work, we present the most general conditions in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-29 Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo , M. K. Mak , Sergey V. Sushkov

This paper discusses the possible existence of traversable wormholes in f(R) modified gravity while assuming a noncommutative-geometry background, as well as zero tidal forces. The first part of the paper aims for an overview via several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-28 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

Scalar-tensor $f(R)$ theory of gravity is considered in the framework of a simple inhomogeneous space-time model. In this we use the reconstruction technique to look for possible evolving wormhole solutions within viable $f(R)$ gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-14 Subhra Bhattacharya , S. Chakraborty

We extend previous proofs that violations of the null energy condition (NEC) are a generic and universal feature of traversable wormholes to completely non-symmetric time-dependent wormholes. We show that the analysis can be phrased purely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 David Hochberg , Matt Visser

In this paper, we explore higher-dimensional asymptotically flat wormhole geometries in the framework of Gauss-Bonnet (GB) gravity and investigate the effects of the GB term, by considering a specific radial-dependent redshift function and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-06 Mohammad Reza Mehdizadeh , Mahdi Kord Zangeneh , Francisco S. N. Lobo

In this work we explore the possible existence of static, spherically symmetric and stationary, axisymmetric traversable wormholes coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics. Considering static and spherically symmetric (2+1) and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Aaron V. B. Arellano , Francisco S. N. Lobo

Traversable wormholes in General Relativity (GR) require exotic matter sources that violate the null energy condition (NEC), and such behavior may be avoided in modified gravity. Moreover, the concept of non-commutative geometry as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-18 Anshuman Baruah , Parangam Goswami , Atri Deshamukhya

In this work, we investigate static and spherically symmetric traversable wormhole solutions within the framework of the extended symmetric teleparallel gravity, specifically the $\mathcal{F}(Q,\mathcal{L}_{m},\mathcal{T})$ gravity theory,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-15 Rounak Manna , Krishna Pada Das , Ujjal Debnath

We review a new traversable-wormhole solution of the gravitational field equation of general relativity without exotic matter. Instead of having exotic matter to keep the wormhole throat open, the solution relies on a 3-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-25 Frans R. Klinkhamer
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